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In a distributed, inherently dynamic Grid environment the reliability of individual resources cannot be guaranteed. The more resources and components are involved the more error-prone is the system. Therefore, it is important to enhance the dependability of the system with fault-tolerance mechanisms. In this paper, we present Migol, a fault-tolerant, self-healing Grid service infrastructure for MPI applications.
The benefit of the Grid is that in case of a failure an application may be migrated and restarted from a checkpoint file on another site. This approach requires a service infrastructure which handles the necessary activities transparently for an application. But any migration framework cannot support fault-tolerant applications, if it is not fault-tolerant itself.
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Luckow, A., Schnor, B. (2005). Migol: A Fault-Tolerant Service Framework for MPI Applications in the Grid. In: Di Martino, B., Kranzlmüller, D., Dongarra, J. (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. EuroPVM/MPI 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3666. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11557265_35
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